Works by Claude Monet, Walter De Maria, and James Turrell form the permanent collection at the Tadao Ando-designed Museum. A subterranean space surrounded by the scenic Inland Sea, the museum invites consideration of our relationship with nature. Visitors can view five Monet paintings that are made visible entirely by natural lighting while being underground. The […]
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DO IT YOURSELF (SEASCAPE), ANDY WARHOL, 1962
Here we are talking about Andy Warhol again! But today we are speaking about a completely different artwork. If you want to see the previous one, check it out here! How many times did you think “I could have done that!” in front of a contemporary work? Well, in this case Andy Warhol is making […]
MOTHER WITH HER DEAD SON, KÄTHE KOLLWITZ, 1993
This work by the famous german artist Käthe Kollwitz is places inside the Neue Wache (New Guardhouse), a neoclassical building inspired by the Roman Pantheon. The Neue Wache was dedicated to the Unknown Soldier of the World Wars since 1931, more than 100 years after its construction. The hole in the roof is open, it doesn’t […]
THE REICHSTAG DOME
Today we speak about the architecture of the Reichstag Dome, the glass cupola above the building that hosts the German parliament. From the dome, accessible to the public with a reservation, the whole cityscape can be seen at 360 degrees. The debating chamber of the Bundestag, the German parliament, can be seen below it. It was designed by architect Norman Foster and […]
THE EAST SIDE GALLERY – “Get Human”
The Berlin Wall is also called East Side Gallery, due to the fact that many artists chose the east side of the wall to draw incredible graffiti. But let’s look at the wall’s history for a moment! The Wall was built in 1961 by the GDR (German Democratic Republic), in order to separate the east […]
The collection of the HAMBURGER BAHNHOF MUSEUM: an overview
Today we look at a specific collection as a whole: the collection of the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin. In the museum there are works very different from each other, but all made after 1960. This is because, after the closing of the museum by the Nazis, the message the museum wanted to spread at […]